Focused multi-task learning using Gaussian processes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6912 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 310-325

  Leen, Gayle ^a,b,d   Peltonen, Jaakko ^a,b   Kaski, Samuel ^a,b,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

Author keywords

asymmetric setting; Gaussian processes; multi task learning; negative transfer

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC SETTING; DATA SETS; GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODELS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; HIERARCHICAL DIRICHLET PROCESS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; LEARNING TASKS; MULTITASK LEARNING; NEGATIVE TRANSFER; PREDICTIVE STRUCTURES; TRANSFER LEARNING;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LEARNING SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80052413808     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23783-6_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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